Images Icons and the Irish Nationalist Imagination 1870-1925,9781851824939

Images Icons and the Irish Nationalist Imagination 1870-1925

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ISBN13: 9781851824939
ISBN10: 1851824936
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-11-01
Publisher(s): Four Courts Press
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Summary

This collection of essays from scholars based in Ireland, England, Canada and the United States addresses the symbolic representation of nationalist history in words, pictures and the plastic arts.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
7(9)
Editor's Preface 9(4)
Introduction Images, icons and the Irish nationalist imagination, from the Manchester martyrs through the commemoration of the heroes of the War of Independence 13(5)
Lawrence W. McBride
Constructing the martyrs: the Manchester executions and the nationalist imagination
18(19)
Gary Owens
The imagery of the Irish land war, 1880--1890
37(16)
Gerard Moran
`Beauty and the Beast': depiction of Irish female types during the era of Parnell, c.1880--1891
53(20)
Joel A. Hollander
Nationalist political illustrations and the Parnell myth, 1880--1900
73(22)
Lawrence W. McBride
Beyond gilt shamrock: symbolism and realism in the cover art of Irish historical and political fiction, 1880--1914
95(18)
Eileen Reilly
The politics of photography: travel writing and the Irish countryside, 1900--1914
113(17)
Spurgeon Thompson
The advanced nationalist response to atrocity propaganda, 1914--1918
130(18)
Ben Novick
Commemorating the hero in newly independent Ireland: expressions of nationhood in bronze and stone
148(18)
Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch
Images, icons and the practice of Irish history
166(11)
Sean Farrell Moran
Contributors 177(2)
Suggested Readings 179(4)
Index 183

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